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Crystallization and melting behaviors of maleic anhydride grafted poly(propylene) nucleated by an aryl amide derivative

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This paper reports the crystallization behavior of maleic anhydride grafted poly(propylene) (PP-MA) with an aryl amide derivative (TMB-5) as β-phase nucleating agent (β-NA). The isothermal and nonisothermal crystallization behaviors of PP-MA and nucleated PP-MA are comparatively researched based on the concentration of β-NA of 0.2 wt%. Subsequent melting behaviors after isothermal and nonisothermal crystallization process are also investigated to explore the crystalline structures formed during the crystallization. The results indicate that TMB-5 is an efficient β-NA in influencing the crystallization of PP-MA through increasing the crystallization rate and decreasing the fold surface free energy, leading to large amounts of β-phase formation during the crystallization process.

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Authors would like to express their sincere thanks to National Natural Science and Technology Foundation (No. 50403019), Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET-08-0823) and Sichuan Youthful Science and Technology Foundation (07ZQ026-003) (P.R. China) for supporting this work.

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    Bo Song, Yong Wang, Hongwei Bai, Li Liu, Yanli Li, Jihong Zhang & Zuowan Zhou

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Song, B., Wang, Y., Bai, H. et al. Crystallization and melting behaviors of maleic anhydride grafted poly(propylene) nucleated by an aryl amide derivative. J Therm Anal Calorim 99, 563–570 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-009-0159-4

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